in pounds next year in budget contributions on top of the eleven billion we already pay and we'd soon be handing over a staggering twenty two thousand pounds a minute to brussels david cameron has promised tell negotiate a deal that means u.k. contributions would rise only in line with inflation but that's proven not good enough this week with rebels in his own party to mounting a real terms cards cash going to the. there's a summit in brussels to discuss the budget towards the end of the month and this could all push cameron into taking a tougher stance which could end in annual budget negotiations with the union and eventually what nick clegg fears many support a slide out of the all together. meanwhile a report in a british media says the u.k. is on standby to send planes to the persian gulf the jets would be stationed in the

united arab emirates just a couple of hundred kilometers from iran. minister of defense insists any such deployment would not be related to concerns about iran's nuclear ambitions but antiwar activist john reese believes it's about to destabilize the situation in the region. this is not the first report we've had all western increased deployments in the area there have been a whole spate of them recent weeks and months which all point in the same direction of increased u.s. british and other western nations deploying a great deal more than the normal commitment to the gulf area not big enough in normal times i think we all understand what the imperial structure of the of the middle east is and that is that the western powers britain and america with the support of britain and other western european powers believe that it has an absolute right to control this area of the globality employees the israeli state has its watchdog we've seen a very complex series of sort of moves character moves bluff statements and so

forth in the course of the us elections or by the exact timing and about relations between israel and the united states over any attack on iran but as i say i think that process is about to come when we we reach tori's that the israelis and the u.s. have now come to an agreement about a timescale within which they must deal with iran so that's going to happen the day after the u.s. elections but i do think that things will move on and will be clear exactly what the program deploying further pressure on the iranian regime is in a week or so is time. for more news for us coming up after this short break stay with us here now to.

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drawn all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet means but that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up flow from these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today. look. government no longer represents the. the people are going to take the terms.

of. the way our economic system. is not. going to. change when america picks its presidents amid muslim rage walking the iran tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate their. selections

a close call every day for fifty one r t. welcome back more world news for you now an activist in bahrain has been sentenced to six months in jail for insulting the gulf nations king on twitter three other people are awaiting vote exam similar charges next week meanwhile anti regime rallies are continuing despite tuesday's ban on public gatherings and move that's brought harsh criticism from the un and the us a call in carroll form a letter at the university of bahrain says a monarchy is unlikely to listen to do also mourn for voicing their opinion. of expression like. any standard of the monstrously around the world there is no improvement at all exert there the regime has learned to play the world media was. plainly supporting human rights.

instituting dialogue with the opposition claim all sorts of changes and there's a role the in bahrain meanwhile they can do neither grow they continue their torture and they continue to do in continually purely and in bahrain majority overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the. core out of the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty years mostly. there will be no social views in bahrain in the situation that will continue to get more chaotic the jailed punk band pussy riot is infamous anti putin stunt that had them in the global headlines another potential to cash in on that famous scene battle comments over copyright isikoff an offer has the details. pussy riot the members of the band themselves may be toiling away in hard labor as

a result of their anti-crime land protest stunt behind me at that price saver but that hasn't stopped some people from trying to cash in on the pussy riot brand shockingly enough the wife of one of the pussy riot attorneys has applied for a permits to essentially gain ownership of the brand rights in order to put out t. shirts and other various items this application has been rejected so that's not going to happen but that hasn't stopped people from expressing outrage over the commercialization of this situation the band members themselves had said that this is supposed to be a political protest a nonprofit movement they're not happy with the fact that this is turning into a profit venture we've even also heard reports of there's a thirty thousand pound contract to put a full feature movie about pussy riot into works now the band has come under international attention over there are stunned at the cathedral there is a high profile trial here in russia where they were accused of hooliganism

motivated by religious hatred and as a result they got sentenced to labor in a work camp one of the members was released on october a prime minister dmitry medvedev spoke out about this issue and said that while he personally doesn't necessarily agree with their tactics and thinks that they have served their time and it's time for them to end the sentences for the remaining two members now as for the commercialization of pussy riot we've seen a lot of high profile celebrities coming to to the present riot because madonna apparently is selling t. shirts in support of pussy riot for nineteen bucks a pop unclear where those profits are going and we've also actually seen the pussy riot turn into the punchline of a comedy show called south park that across costs in the u.s. the episode was essentially making fun of people who rallied towards various causes without actually understanding what those causes are all about and in it jesus christ came down and yelled at a bunch of the characters for wearing various protest bracelets saying that people

shouldn't be expressing their political opinions on bracelets but instead on t. shirts and he revealed his jesus christ robes to show a free pussy riot t. shirts. more international headlines for you now this hour eighteen people have been killed in a gun attack in pakistan a volatile stand by taliban and al qaeda stronghold men riding motorcycles opened fire on a bus at a petrol station triggering a huge blaze no group has so far kind of sponsibility and the motive for the attack is still unclear. nigerian soldiers have shot dead forty people in the northeastern city that's been under attack from the boko haram militant group for more than four years officials have not commented yet whether the dead belong to be islamic sect that wants to impose sharia law in the country media reports say the victims mostly young men were rounded up in house to house searches and then shot. germany's trying hard to

ditch in nuclear energy but the result is that electricity prices in the manufacturing powerhouse are becoming shockingly high speed all over now reports the other stings that the country is having to be decidedly non-green to fuel its future. it was a resoundingly no new clear from the german chancellor to the animal abandon you have power completely step by step until the end of the twenty twenty as a country within that we can become pioneers on the way to go we need an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is a security concerns are very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin with the action of nuclear energy in germany.